In one scenario, interstellar clouds contain tricky - to -
see oxygen gas, which got caught up as the cloud collapsed into a disc, then flash - froze and stuck to tiny grains of ice.
Not exact matches
Some
see it as
oxygen — they can't live without it — and others
see it as Sarin
gas — not wanting to get near it.
The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a
gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect
oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to
see if they are biochemical in origin.
And each
gas emits a particular color as a result:
Oxygen makes green light at common aurora altitudes, so that's what we
see most often.
The sensors detected changes in
oxygen pressure as small as 15 millimeters of mercury, and it took less than 10 minutes to
see the effects of a change in inhaled
gas.
Seen from space humans, trees, elephants, or even whales are undetectable and unremarkable, yet Earth would reveal its secret to an outside observer through the surprising abundance of a highly reactive
gas, molecular
oxygen.
WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a «fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation» not
seen in millions of years as greenhouse
gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and
oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.
Joye notes that the water in that area can go «completely anoxic» or have extremely low levels of
oxygen; she hasn't yet «
seen zero -
oxygen water but there is certainly enough
gas in the water to draw
oxygen down to zero.»